Olympic Stadium from Shooters Hill, London, originally uploaded by neilclasper.

Some things worth reading that I found this week:

1. Mapping the Blitz, over the Isle of Dogs.
2. The music of Ed Harcourt has largely passed me by, but his words on Sparklehorse’s Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot echoed my own thoughts hard, in the week that marked 3 years since Mark Linkous took his own life. Much missed.
3. Will Self on UKIP, and the history of Britain’s Far Right.